On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:18 -0600, dan.trainor wrote:
Dave Gutteridge wrote:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,noauto,user,uid=512,gid=1002 1 2 ^ ^ really really bad idea -------------------------------------|-|
If you say so. Did I mention I was a newbie? I'm a newbie. I only put in the 1 and 2 because that's what another guy on this list told me to do. I have no idea what they mean.
filesystem does not need to be dumped (field 5) and not need fsck'ing (field 6) - it is vfat right?
If vfat is the same as fat32, then yes.
I'm a little scared to go ahead with this, because I don't want to lose any more data. If I change the last two numbers, will I at least be safe from having Linux try and make changes to the hard drive?
Dave
Hello, Dave -
man fstab:
"The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked."
You wouldn't want to fsck a vfat drive. I've never done it before. I don't even know if it's *possible*, even if there was a way to force it. Hope that helps.
It is certainly possible, and that's how it works on my system (thus the sample fstab line); however, should have noted that dosfsck is alpha. Works-for-me but YMMV. Sorry 'bout that Dave.
# fsck /dev/hda2 fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN Warning: FAT32 support is still ALPHA. /dev/hda2: 39084 files, 1281584/4094597 clusters # rpm -qif `which dosfsck` Name : dosfstools Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.8 Vendor: CentOS Release : 15 Build Date: Mon 21 Feb 2005 07:17:49 PM EST Install Date: Sat 18 Jun 2005 09:25:02 PM EDT Build Host: bhrama.build.karan.org Group : Applications/System Source RPM: dosfstools-2.8-15.src.rpm Size : 69390 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sat 26 Feb 2005 03:34:40 PM EST, Key ID a53d0bab443e1821 Packager : Karanbir Singh kbsingh@centos.org Summary : Utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems on Linux. Description : The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities, which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard drives or on floppies.
Phil